Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Happy Adoption-versary, Gizzy!



2 years ago today, we brought home Gizzy from a shelter at Mission Mall.
She celebrated with two servings of treats and lots of snuggles!

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Fried Ravioli!

At knitting group last week, we watched an episode of Giada where she made Fried Nutella Ravioli. We decided we needed to try it out.
We ended up having Nutella, cheesecake filling and pseudo-bananas foster stuffed Fried Ravioli. We used wanton wrappers for the shells, which worked great!
YUM.
Here's the set-up:We dusted them with powdered sugar and enjoyed with the bananas (sauted with butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and amaretto).



So. Good.
And easy to make. I would highly recommend having a deep fat fryer for this, it makes it so easy to just toss them in!
Just don't burn your mouth off on the filling!

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Monday, October 15, 2007

Puffy Tacos

Pan was making chicken broth today, so she boiled a bunch of chicken thighs and needed to do something with the meat. She decided to shred it and use it in puffy tacos. She chose. . . wisely.

She combined the shredded chicken, tomatoes, peppers, onions, paprika, garlic, coriander, tabasco and some other stuff and simmered it for quite awhile.


This was the result of the simmering. It had some pretty deep and somewhat spicy flavor and when all simmered together for that long, produced a really nice and smooth texture.


We decided to use masa to make homemade tortillas, that we then fry and shape into light, yet crunchy tacos.


Frying the homemade tortillas.


This was the resulting puffy taco, which was really light and had a really nice flavor that went extremely well with the spicier flavor of the chicken mixture. Note that we turned the open side of the taco over on to the paper towel to let the grease drain. That is key.

This was the delicious result. It was awfully good and not very difficult to make. Viva los puffy tacos.

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Saturday's Leftovers

These two dishes don't really have a good place anywhere else, but I took pictures of them, so here are a couple dishes we recently tried.


Pan called this a "Mexican chicken salad", but I'm still not really sure what makes it "Mexican." It was basically lettuce (duh!), avocado, chicken, jicama and red onion, tossed with a bit of sour cream. I thought it had pretty good flavor and Pan really liked it as well.


This was "Mexican jambalaya," but it actually has good reason for being called such. It was Mexican rice, tomatoes, peppers, celery, chorizo, and probably a few other things. This dish was right up my alley, packed with flavor. I thought it was pretty awesome.


Oh yeah, we topped it with cheese and sour cream, which gave it a really nice creamy meal.

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Monday, October 08, 2007

When the Stars Make you Drool like a Pasta Fazool. . .

That's amore. Or so says Dean Martin. Pasta fazool is an old favorite of Pan's that she hadn't eaten in years and I had never eaten it, so we decided it was about time to give it a try. It ended up being perfect timing, since we had it tonight, which turned out to be a chilly night here in KC.

Pan made it, so I don't know all the specifics, but I think the fazool contained pancetta, celery, tomatoes, cannellini beans, garlic, and chicken broth, among other things, I'm sure. The pasta (small shells) was then added after the broth was brought to a boil and we topped it with parmesan, right before eating.





I was really pleased with my initial fazool experience and we'll probably have to put it in our cold-weather dinner rotation, since it was pretty easy to make.

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

It's A Great Day To Be A Jayhawk!

Here's your visual.

And here's your audio:

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